Kids

We think the best things about the Big Red Rooster baby sound machine are its compact design and slim price tag. It is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and all the buttons are located on the top panel.

The Cloud B Sleep Sheep is a soft and plush stuffed animal with a removeable sound machine. The sound module is tucked away nicely in the back of the stuffed animal and has four nature sounds and four lullabies to help your baby fall asleep and stay asleep.

The MyBaby SoundSpa Portable is lightweight, durable and operates on batteries, making it one of the best baby sound machines to travel with. This sleep machine performed well in our sound quality and sound masking tests and has six sound profiles to choose from.

The WavHello SoundBub has some unique features that make it a useful addition to your diaper bag. This is the only baby sound machine we tested that has a rechargeable battery. It charges with a normal micro-USB cable included in the retail packaging.

The Munchkin Nursery Projector and Sound System has soothing lullabies that play along with a rotating image projector to help your baby fall asleep. This baby sound machine has accurate nature sounds, and the white noise profile is the best we tested in terms of masking external noises.

The Baby Shusher creates only one sound: white noise in the form of a shushing sound. This baby sound machine projects a rhythmic, repetitive shush that has a mesmerizing effect on infants and toddlers and is great at masking external noise.

The Conair Dream Tones is an affordable and portable baby sound machine with a soothing image projector. It has six nature sound profiles: rain, ocean waves, summer night, heart beat forest and babbling brook.

The Bubzi Co Soothing Sleep Owl is a stuffed animal with a removeable baby sound machine.

The Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother doubles as a crib toy and a baby sound machine. Choose between four different operating modes that provide different combinations of music, sounds, underwater lights and sea life in motion.

The Summer Infant Wide View 2.0 baby monitor is an expandable system – you can attach up to four cameras to one parent unit, which is valuable for nurseries and playrooms that are too large to c

The VTech VM343 is a simple video baby monitor with settings that alert you only when your baby needs you. Its power-saving feature keeps the battery running for over nine hours and defaults the monitor to sleep mode.

The Motorola MBP36S baby monitor has two-way communication and clear sound quality, and it stays connected throughout your home. Though it ranked high in our audio tests, it struggled a bit in other areas. The Motorola MBP36S ranked with the best video baby monitors in our audio tests.

Video baby monitors generally look like webcams, but the iBaby M6T looks more like a Star Wars droid. As one of the few mobile-controlled baby monitors, it's unique in functionality as well as design.

Editor’s Note: This product has been removed from our side-by-side comparison because it has been discontinued.